New databases: Church Missionary Society Periodicals

Emory Libraries have purchased several new databases in recent months that will greatly enhance student and faculty research and classroom teaching and learning, and this new blog series strives to highlight each new database individually. Church Missionary Society Periodicals provides digital copies of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), South American Missionary Society (SAMS), and Church Read More …

Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird Rises from the Ashes (and Mold)

While conducting conservation treatment of particularly damaged rare books and other special collections materials, I sometimes imagine the adventures and misadventures which might have brought a page (and perhaps its reader) to such a state. Is that water damage and sandy residue evidence of a shipwreck? Is this dried, pressed leaf from one of the Read More …

Health sciences library opens new “Spirit Lives On” dementia awareness exhibit

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library has opened “The Spirit Lives On: Art and the Mind,” a new dementia awareness permanent exhibit. The exhibit documents some of the photography and artwork aspects of “The Spirit Lives On: Art, Music, and the Mind,” which used the arts to highlight and acknowledge the impact of dementing illness Read More …

Meet our 2018-2019 Fellow – Shensheng Wang

This fall LITS welcomes five fabulous 2018-2019 Emory Libraries/Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows.  We hope this blog series of interviews will help you get to know them better.  Funded by the Laney Graduate School, Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by Read More …

Locate Samuel Beckett letters in over 25 American archives with one website Project led by Emory University

Emory University announces the debut of The Location Register of the Letters of Samuel Beckett in American Public Archives (beckett.library.emory.edu), an open-access website listing the archival descriptions and locations of the letters of the Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Users can browse the Location Register by recipient, physical description, sender and recipient addresses, language, repository, Read More …

Meet our 2018-2019  Fellow – John Bernau

This fall LITS welcomes five fabulous 2018-2019 Emory Libraries/Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows.  We hope this blog series of interviews will help you get to know them better.  Funded by the Laney Graduate School, Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by Read More …

Meet our 2018-2019  Fellow – Andrew Zonderman

This fall LITS welcomes five fabulous 2018-2019 Emory Libraries/Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows.  We hope this blog series of interviews will help you get to know them better.  Funded by the Laney Graduate School, Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by Read More …

Meet our 2018-2019  Fellow – Joshua Fjelstul

This fall LITS welcomes five fabulous 2018-2019 Emory Libraries/Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows.  We hope this blog series of interviews will help you get to know them better.  Funded by the Laney Graduate School, Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations by Read More …

Meet our 2018-2019 Fellow – Andrew Kingston

This fall LITS welcomes five fabulous 2018-2019 Emory Libraries/Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows.  We hope this blog series of interviews will help you get to know them better.  Funded by the Laney Graduate School, Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) award fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their Read More …

Love the Libraries? Give thanks to Emory Libraries donors this Thursday

EmoryThanks is Thursday, Nov. 8, at stations all over the Emory campus! It’s a chance for students, faculty, and staff to write a thank-you note to Emory donors. Come to the front of the Woodruff Library on Nov. 8 between 10 am and 2 pm (inside the lobby if it’s raining) to thank an Emory Read More …

Need Expert Social Science Literature Reviews? Check out Routledge Handbooks Online!

Woodruff Library currently has access online to over 900 Routledge Handbooks, which span subjects as wide ranging from auto-ethnography to election news coverage to linguistics! These handbooks are composed of numerous expertly-written articles, with excellent bibliographies! Titles are also all available in DiscoverE. If there is a title to which we do not have access Read More …

New databases: East India Company

The Woodruff Library at Emory University has purchased several new databases in recent months that will greatly enhance student and faculty research and classroom teaching and learning. Today, we’ll profile one of them, called the East India Company. The East India Company provides an array of documents to Emory faculty, students, and staff previously accessible Read More …